TAKE A THOUGHT ABOUT YOUR LIFE
Are you like that businessman who said, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Instead, he ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." (James 4:13, 15 NIV).
■Have you made a resolution for 2014?
■How do you intend to fulfil it?
■How did you make the resolution last year?
■How much of it did you carry out?
Year in year out, many have been making unfulfilled resolutions and they continue to make them with the "hope" or is it expectation that one day they will succeed. They treat their lives as if it were pool-betting. A life of chance, of no certainty, this is therefore the reason why these people do not accept the Saviour. They eat drink and make merry, believing that that is all there is to life; please note that life is more than food and body more than clothing (Luke 12:23) you have to be rich in God here in order to make heaven.
Are you like that rich fool? (Luke 12:16-22). He was a successful farmer but was not rich towards God. He believed that his hands were responsible for all his successes, like many do today, they then labour for others to eat.
Many leaders of the corrupt countries of the world continue to be like this rich fool; they store their loots in foreign lands with pseudo names and when they believe they have plenty laid up for many years, God will now take the life, and all the loot is lost (Luke 12:19, 20).
Resolutions ought to lead to a better relationship with God. Let the words of the hymn below guide your 2014 resolutions
Take my life, and let it be
Consecrated, Lord, to Thee;
Take my moments and my days,
Let them flow with ceaseless praise.
Take my hands, and let them move
At the impulse of Thy love;
Take my feet, and let them be
Swift and beautiful for Thee.
Extract from DAILY DEVOTIONAL by Rev Deji Basorun -(December 31, 2013)
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